Query regarding Austrian Universities in particular the School of Austrian Economic

[ravensclaw]

Hi everyone

Given that the National Socialist German Workers Party sought to remove or reduce competing schools of thought that went against their "tenants", can anyone provide any references to information or resources e.g. books; that discusses what happened to this influential economics school and its advocates in govt and education once the Nazis took control of the Austrian state?

Cheers

[Hearess]

Hi everyone,Vampire Survivors

Given that the National Socialist German Workers Party sought to remove or reduce competing schools of thought that went against their "tenants", can anyone provide any references to information or resources e.g. books; that discusses what happened to this influential economics school and its advocates in govt and education once the Nazis took control of the Austrian state?

Cheers

The Nazi regime was hostile to the Austrian School of Economics and many of its members, as they saw the school's ideas as a threat to their own ideology. The Austrian School was seen as promoting individual freedom, private property rights, and free markets, which were all ideas that went against the Nazi's collectivist and authoritarian views.

[GregSingh]

Founding fathers of this school of thought passed away long before Anschluss.
AFAIK their work was not banned in Nazi Germany.

As for majority of late 1930's well known "members" they already left Austria or were abroad during March 1938. One exception I know of was Abraham Wald, a mathematician who held a position in economics at Vienna University. He was removed and was allowed to emigrate to US in 1940, but he was a Jew.

Out of most prominent "members", AFAIK only one was blacklisted - Ludwig von Mises - he was in Switzerland during Anschluss and left for US in 1940. Again he was a Jew.